Anna Rakitina conducts Paganini, Reid, and Prokofiev featuring Joshua Bell, violin
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Anna Rakitina, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Eliza Bagg, Martha Cluver, and Sonja DuToit Tengblad, vocalists
Ellen REID When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist
PAGANINI Violin Concerto No. 1
Intermission
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Gates open at 12pm
Performance Details
Jul 30, 2023, 2:30pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist
Tennessee-born sound artist and composer Ellen Reid's sonically inventive orchestra work When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of their Project 19 series and was premiered in February 2020.
Violin Concerto No. 1
Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet represents a giant step forward in Prokofiev’s evolution as a ballet composer, a remarkable synthesis of the "five lines" of his musical personality.